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Journey Through Sci-Fi: Science Fiction Film History
by James Payne
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About the show
A film history podcast that takes one big science-fiction idea and follows it through the decades.
Hosted by James Payne and Matt Willcock, Journey Through Sci-Fi traces the evolution of science fiction on screen, from the silent era to the present day. Each episode pairs two films to ask what changed in between: how they were made, what they reveal about the world that produced them, and how science fiction keeps reinventing the same hopes, fears and questions for a new generation.
Previous journeys have explored Artificial Intelligence, from Metropolis and The Terminator to Ghost in the Shell, The Matrix and Ex Machina. Space Opera, from the Star Wars trilogies and Dune to Starcrash and the silent-era A Trip to Mars. Plus Time Travel, Dystopias, Virtual Reality and Mad Science, with regular detours into science-fiction television.
Next journey: Friendly Aliens, We Come in Peace!
New episodes every other Thursday. Bonus episodes, Patron's Picks and franchise deep dives at patreon.com/JourneyThroughSciFi
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It Came from Outer Space (1953) & Warning from Space (1956): Don't Be Afraid
October 7, 2026 · 1 hr 4 minIt Came from Outer Space (1953) and Warning from Space (1956). Two sets of aliens who mean us no harm, and both decide the safest thing to do is put on a human face. Journey Through Sci-Fi continues We Come in Peace, our series tracing…
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The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951 & 2008): Come in Peace, Or Else
September 23, 2026 · 1 hr 28 minThe Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and its 2008 remake. The alien who comes in peace and brings a threat with him. Journey Through Sci-Fi continues We Come in Peace, our series tracing the history of friendly aliens on screen. This…
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A Message from Mars (1913): The First Friendly Alien
September 9, 2026 · 50 minWhere does the friendly alien begin? Not with E.T., but with a Martian exiled to Edwardian London to reform the most selfish man alive. Journey Through Sci-Fi returns with a brand new series. We Come in Peace traces the history of…
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We Come in Peace! Series Trailer
August 26, 2026 · 2 minSome of them came to warn us. Some of them just wanted to go home. We Come in Peace is a new series from Journey Through Sci-Fi, tracing the friendly alien across a century of film and television. We start in the earliest days of visitors…
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Sci-Fi Starter Pack: Star Wars, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Mad Max & More
July 30, 2026 · 27 minNew to Journey Through Sci-Fi? Start here. Before we launch our next full series on friendly aliens, we're taking a journey back through the archive with a special starter pack episode, featuring some of our favourite clips from past…
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Disclosure Day: Spielberg and the Return of Friendly Aliens
June 24, 2026 · 8 minA little bonus transmission from the JTSF Patreon feed. We've been chatting about Spielberg's Disclosure Day, and because our next main-feed series is all about the history of friendly aliens in sci-fi cinema, this felt like the perfect…
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The Mad Science Movie Awards: 58 Films, So Many Bad Ideas
May 6, 2026 · 1 hr 34 minWe close out our Mad Science series the only way we know how: with a very serious, deeply prestigious and completely unofficial Mad Science Film Awards. After 58 films and more than a century of sci-fi cinema, we look back at the…
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Mad Science in Star Trek: Khan, Bashir and the Eugenics Wars
April 22, 2026 · 60 minThis week on Journey Through Sci-Fi, we head into the Star Trek universe to explore one of its most enduring mad science taboos: genetic engineering. From Space Seed and the rise of Khan to Enterprise's Augments arc and Deep Space Nine's…